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Open Space Technology:
A User's Guide

by Harrison Owen

Paperback - 173 pages 2nd edition (September 1997)
North Atlantic Books; ISBN: 1576750248
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Make conferences a place where work gets done! Open Space Technology enables self-organizing groups of all sizes to deal with hugely complex issues in a very short period of time. Perfect for NGO networks.



Discovering Common Ground : How Future Search Conferences Bring People Together to Achieve Breakthrough Innovation, Empowerment, Shared Vision, and co by Marvin R. Weisbord

Paperback - 442 pages (January 1993) Berrett Koehler Publisher's; ISBN: 1881052087 Availability: This title usually ships within 24 hours.

Rolf Lynton, International Consultant, and author of Training for Development comments
"Discovering Common Ground brings together 30 years' hands-on experiences with searches and the rationale for their success in a wide variety of settings"



Future Search : An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities
by Marvin R. Weisbord, Sandra Janoff

Paperback - 219 pages 1 Ed edition (June 1995)
Berrett Koehler Publisher's; ISBN: 1881052125
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Synopsis
This nuts-and-bolts guide to "future search" conferences--a new way of conducting meetings to effect dramatic change--explains how to run a meeting at which diverse people with a stake in a single organization or issue come together to seek a common ground and generate creative strategies and a broad commitment. 25 charts.

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